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The state of ‘things’ in smart manufacturing – grasping at and grappling with Industry 4.0

Spending on factory-based IoT data applications will grow from $18 billion in 2019 to just over $27 billion in 2024, a rise of 50 per cent in the period. About $32 billion will go on industrial IoT platforms for smart manufacturing by 2025.  The market...

Mars brings in Microsoft and Accenture to drive smart manufacturing, supply chain

Mars is working with Microsoft and Accenture to bring new IoT and AI solutions to its manufacturing and supply-chain operations. The work is part of an expanded deal with Microsoft around its Azure cloud and analytics services, geared to drive digital change at the...

Editorial Report: The state of ‘things’ in smart manufacturing – how enterprises are grasping for and grappling with industrial IoT

In a new Q&A report series, Enterprise IoT Insights talks with select industry leaders about how digital systems – including 5G, AI, IoT, and edge, plus other key technologies – are transforming industry. Despite the bluster and hype from the tech industry, and the slow...

Fujitsu launches private 5G network at Oyama smart factory

  Japanese company Fujitsu announced the start of of operations of a private 5G network at its Oyama plant in Tochigi Prefecture, Japan. In a release, Fujitsu said that the network consists of a 4.7 GHz band SA and a 28 GHz extended frequency band NSA...

Hyundai Motor Company, Singtel partner to boost smart manufacturing

  Korea’s Hyundai Motor Company and Singapore operator Singtel have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to collaborate on a range of ventures to support smart manufacturing. The MOU follows Hyundai Motor Group’s announcement in October 2020 that it is setting up its innovation center in...

Vodafone claims Ireland’s first private SA 5G network at manufacturing research site

Vodafone has deployed what is being considered Ireland’s first private standalone (SA) 5G network at Irish Manufacturing Research’s (IMR) facility in Mullingar. IMR, an independent not-for-profit manufacturing and industrial energy efficiency research organization, will use the dedicated 5G network to develop and demonstrate smart...

‘The centre of everything’ – manufacturing, healthcare, cities drive $800bn edge spend

Up to $800 billion will be spent on new and replacement server equipment and edge computing facilities in the period to 2028, driven by the deployment of 5G in industry, alongside the commoditization of edge hardware and the rise of open source networking software....

The role of operators in the weird science of Industry 4.0 (a ramble on private 5G)

Some quick (perhaps not fully-formed) thoughts on the supply and management of private 5G networks for industry. These come from a series of conversations for an upcoming report (and webinar) about the kind of service level agreements (SLAs) that might go to under-write industrial-grade...

COSMOTE, Ericsson, PTC combine on ‘first’ LTE smart-factory network in Greece

Mobile operator COSMOTE has deployed the first LTE-based private campus network in Greece for smart manufacturing, it has announced. The new deployment, at a production facility belonging to Greek solar thermal manufacturer Calpak, uses a localised chunk of licensed spectrum from COSMOTE and LTE...

Telefónica, Leonardo put private 5G to work on UK’s next-gen Tempest fighter plane

The UK divisions of Spain-based mobile operator Telefónica and Italy-based aerospace manufacturer Leonardo have announced a deal to collaborate on private 5G for Industry 4.0, including for the “high-pace” manufacturing of the “next-generation” Tempest combat aircraft system, a joint defence project between the UK,...

Aerospace manufacturer builds first SME-based private 5G network in UK

Precision engineering firm AE Aerospace, which makes prototype components for the aerospace, marine, and defence industries, is the first UK SME to deploy a private 5G network, it has been claimed. AE Aerospace produces specialist parts, in low and medium volumes, for Rolls Royce, Raytheon,...

Elisa buys German software firm camLine to spur Industry 4.0 charge

Finnish mobile operator Elisa is to acquire Germany-based industrial software provider camLine Group, in order to enhance its smart manufacturing expertise and portfolio. The fee has not been disclosed; Elisa restated its strategy to expand beyond localised mobile services, in Finland, to capture an international audience with...

BT on 2021: Four forecasts for digital change – and why 5G will be ‘bigger for enterprises’

2020 was a year that no person or company will ever forget. The Covid-19 pandemic changed everything. Overnight, people, communities, businesses and public sector organisations were faced with a health crisis not seen in this magnitude in over a century. From a business perspective particularly,...

Investments in shared and unlicensed LTE/5G spectrum to hit $4bn by 2024

Investments in shared and unlicensed LTE and 5G spectrum will reach $4bn by 2024, according to Dubai-based market intelligence outfit SNS Telecom & IT. The forecast comes on the back of broadening spectrum liberalisation in global markets in 2020, led by the CBRS scheme...

Qualcomm readies ‘super-30’ IoT bundles, ‘cracks code’ for smart-city ROI

Qualcomm has released a new ‘services suite’ that pulls together full-stack tech IoT componentry into a modular plug-and-play IoT solution for cities and city-based ‘verticals’. The chip-maker declared it has “cracked the code” for smart cities with the bundle, on the grounds it removes...

Make manufacturing truly smart by scaling OEE

To get a high-level understanding of the importance Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) in realizing return on smart manufacturing investments, check out this companion article.  So how do you make that initial transition from the manual, clipboard approach to OEE to taking a technology-enabled, systemic approach...

Understanding the importance of OEE in smart manufacturing

Overall Equipment Effectiveness is a key gauge of smart manufacturing ROI Technology investments are made to solve specific business problems. In our technology-enabled world, enterprises of all sorts are allocating precious capital to make their operations “smart.” For manufacturers, becoming “smart” is about more than...

Platforms, machines, glasses – and cows (reading the 2021 IIoT ‘tea leaves’ with ABI)

About $32 billion will be spent on industrial IoT platforms for smart manufacturing by 2025, and the number of industrial AR connections will surge by 57 percent per year in the period to 20.9 million in 2025. So says market advisory firm ABI Research,...

Understanding the relationship between a digital twin and a digital thread

Digital twin and digital twin drive process improvement within and beyond a factory Digital transformation is a broad term that means many things to many people. But, at its core, digital transformation is a technology-enabled process that facilitates the capture and analysis of operational data,...

Hitachi installs a dedicated 5G network, tests robot/human collaboration

Hitachi has installed a dedicated 5G network at its Silicon Valley Research Center, part of the Hitachi America's research and development division. The installation, done in partnership with Ericsson, will leverage Hitachi’s platform technology to accelerate the development and demonstrate the value of digital...

Smart manufacturing will drive 10-fold jump in AI-based IoT services – to $10bn by 2026

The IoT market for artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) services will reach $1.09 billion in 2020 and grow to about 10-times the size, to $10.6 billion, by 2026, according to market advisory firm ABI Research. The massive growth of so-called ‘advanced analytics’ within...

Altran White Paper: Digital Twins – Creating Digital Operations Today to Deliver Business Value Tomorrow

Companies in almost every industry are looking to digital twin technologies to drive meaningful business outcomes across the entire product development life cycle, from ideation and production to manufacturing, support and maintenance. Digital twins integrate geometry, real-time telemetry, engineering analysis, sensors, connectivity, artificial intelligence, machine learning and software...

Solving the climate crisis with Industry 4.0 (Reader Forum)

We are currently facing a climate crisis that is becoming more severe with every continent it affects. Despite multiple warnings, energy usage continues to grow and countries are falling behind in adopting solutions to meet their 2030 climate goals. It’s no surprise that now...

South Korean carriers increase presence in the smart factory field

  South Korea’s telecommunications operators have launched new smart factory solutions with the aim of helping manufacturers overcome the economic slowdown caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, Korean news service Yonhap reported. SK Telecom, the country’s largest mobile operator, released a subscription-based smart factory solution for small...